GERONA GOES FOR GO'S CONTINUED SERVICE

For the last three years, Mayor Dennis Norman Tanedo Go has been doing an excellent job running the municipal government of Gerona, resulting in a 10 percent increase in the municipality’s revenues over the past two years and prompting community leaders and ordinary folks to clamor for his continued leadership.

Mayor Go will end his first term as chief executive of the municipal government of Gerona. He is running for reelection, though, under the Liberal Party.

As Vice Mayor of Gerona during the period 1998-2001 he registered an attendance record of 100 percent in all regular and special sessions of the Sangguniang Bayan, which he presided with zeal and competence.

During this time, too, he authored the following local legislations, among many others: “Municipal Scholarship Program of Gerona,” “Vermin Abatement Program,” “The Regulatory Ordinance on the Operation of Tricycles-for-Hire” and “The Market Code of Gerona.”

He also initiated measures to increase the salaries and benefits of municipal employees, barangay health workers, day-care workers and village policemen (tanod).

His second term as Vice Mayor in 2004-2007 was no less productive. Aside from another 100-percent attendance, he also authored importance legislations for the municipality. These are the “Code of General Ordinance of Gerona,” “The Environmental Code of Gerona,” “The Investment Incentive Code of Gerona,” “The Gender and Development Code of Gerona,” “The Code of Public Safety” and the “Ordinance Amending the Market Code of Gerona.”

Mayor Go completed his elementary and high school education at the Don Bosco Academy in Tarlac City. In 1984, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Mapua Institute of
Technology.

Upon graduation, he worked as a senior engineer at the MWSS and, later, as a project engineer at MADECCO. However, when public duty beckoned he abandoned his engineering practice and served as a legislative officer at the House of Representatives.

His stint at the House—which spanned the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s—gave him the opportunity to assist in the preparation and drafting of the following landmark legislations:
“Local Government Code of 1991”; “The Veterans Code”; and the laws converting the Tarlac College of Technology (TCT) into TSU, creating the Municipality of San Jose, and establishing the Bases Conversion
Authority, among many others.

From 1987 to 1995, he was in-charge of the infrastructure development program of Rep. Jose “Aping” Yap. He also served as the project coordinator for Tarlac province during the implementation of the
Earthquake Rehabilitation Fund from 1990 to 1992.

Mayor Go is an active member of numerous civic organizations.

In 2001-2002 he was elected president of the Rotary Club of Tarlac Metro. In 2003-2004, he served as assistant governor of the Rotary district in Central Luzon, and, in 2005-2006, as district secretary.

He also belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Public Administration Society of TSU.

He holds the rank of Master Mason at the Isagani Lodge No. 96 of the Free and Accepted Masons.

Mayor Go is married to Dr. Carmela Lacsamana-Go, a city health physician in Tarlac City. They have two children, Dominic Gabriel and Deanna Carmelli.